 After five years working as a music critic for various newspapers and magazines, in 1967 he founded, together with Ramón Barce, the magazine "Sonda", dedicated to the subject of contemporary music.For eleven years he worked in the music division of the Radio Nacional de España, and for three years was professor of music history at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and professor of composition at the Conservatorio Real in Madrid.He has served as technical director of the Spanish National Orchestra (1981–85) and the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Music (1985–95), and founded the Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival which he directed for eleven seasons.